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July 10, 2024

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) announced that the University of Toledo has been awarded $999,648 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the "Explorations: Experiential Learning Opportunities in Mechatronics" project. This three-year initiative aims to provide 150 high school students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds with hands-on learning opportunities focused on electric vehicles and advanced manufacturing.


July 9, 2024

**CUTS FACT SHEET** House Republicans Cripple the Clean Energy Economy

Washington, DC — Today, House Appropriations Committee Democrats unanimously opposed Republicans’ 2025 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies funding bill. This bill raises costs for American households, undermines infrastructure investments, and weakens our national security.


June 28, 2024

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur joined 37 Bipartisan Members of the Congressional Steel Caucus, led by Chairman Rick Crawford (AR-01), and Vice Chairman Frank Mrvan (IN-01) 


June 27, 2024

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and senior member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture announced a $156,893 United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Grant through the Rural Energy For America Program (Reap) for HD Grain Farms of Whitehouse, Ohio. This Rural Development investment will be used to purchase and install energy efficient grain dryer at HD Grain Farms in Whitehouse, Ohio.


June 27, 2024

**CUTS FACT SHEET**

Washington, DC — House Appropriations Committee Republicans today released the draft fiscal year 2025 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The bill raises costs for American households, undermines infrastructure investments, and weakens our national security.

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In the News

April 21, 2016
By: Fatima Hussein, Cincinnati Enquirer
April 21, 2016
A West Chester widow stood in front of a sea of gray-haired retirees, mostly men, some with walkers and others wheeling oxygen tanks, who traveled across the country to demand what was promised to them.
Prepared to rally against what could be the biggest cut to the largest multi-employer pension fund in U.S. history, retired Teamsters exited bus after bus that pulled up to Capitol Hill's Western Lawn on a warm Thursday morning.

April 20, 2016
By: Christa Marshall, Tiffany Stecker and George Cahlink, E&E Publishing
April 20, 2016
The House Appropriations Committee approved an energy and water spending bill yesterday by voice vote after a meeting that erupted into a tense debate about the Flint, Mich., water crisis.
The $37.4 billion energy and water measure would slash efficiency and renewable research programs below the White House request, increase fossil fuel spending and provide a funding boost for the controversial

April 20, 2016
By: Horsetalk
April 20, 2016
A key provision which keeps the horse slaughter industry from operating in the United States has been supported by the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
The committee this week voted to adopt an amendment to the agriculture appropriations bill that would bar spending by the US Department of Agriculture to inspect horse slaughterhouses.
Such inspections are legally required in the US for horse abattoirs to process

April 20, 2016
By: Mark Drajem, Bloomberg
April 20, 2016
Inside the Beltway
House Appropriations Advances $37.4b Energy-Water Spending Bill The House Appropriations Committee approved its $37.4 billion energy and water spending bill, while foreshadowing the fights to come on emergency funding and pumping water in California’s Central Valley. None of the Democratic amendments offered were adopted. One, brought up by Rep. Marcy Kaptur, would strike policy riders related to the Clean Water Act.

April 19, 2016
By: Humane Society
April 19, 2016
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted to adopt an amendment to prevent the slaughter of horses for human consumption on U.S. soil. The amendment to the agriculture appropriations bill that bars spending by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to inspect horse slaughterhouses was offered by Reps. Sam Farr, D – Calif., and Charlie Dent, R – Pa., and passed by a vote of 25-23.